Monument record BGL 007 - Eight round barrows on Martlesham Heath; Brightwell Heath

Round barrow, formerly on heathland (Brightwell Heath), now converted to farmland and housing estate:
1935 - Bowl barrow (S1).
1962 - Bowl barrow cut by a field boundary, to the S of which it is much reduced and spread by the plough. To the N, under bracken, it survives to a maximum height of 0.7m. Average diameter 21m (S2)
1978 - Height 0.8m, diameter 21m. Half ploughed and half under bracken, also 1 small oak tree. Several large rabbit holes (S3).
1982 - Contour survey carried out, maximum height 1.08m, diameter 24m (S4). 1983 - N half of barrow fenced, covered with a thin layer of topsoil and regrassed. Oak tree left in position. Sign erected. This half is now in a private garden, Block B, Hamlet J, Martlesham Heath. S half is still in a ploughed field (S5).
1985: Barrow lies on fence line, behind block of flats. N half of which is in communal garden, is grassed, has a single oak tree growing on it, is surrounded by a fence, and is marked by an explanatory notice, composed by E Martin (SAU) and erected by Bidwells. S half, which is in same arable field as 94a, is in cultivation and survives to only approx 0.25m high, in contrast to the approx 1m of the N half (S7).
A round barrow of probable Bronze Age date is visible as an earthwork on aerial photographs, now bisected by a fenceline dividing the monument between a field, formerly part of Brightwell Heath, and the garden of a residential building. This site is one of a number of similar earthworks scattered around Brightwell Heath, clearly visible on photographs of 1947 (S8).
By 1992 the housing estate has expanded and a hint of a ditch may be visible around the barrow as a cropmark, but has not been transcribed (S9).